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Left Bank Books After Hours presents Elaine Viets at an Evening to Benefit The Lupus Foundation of America Heartland Chapter.

Sip on wine and sample cheese and chocolate, while Elaine reads from her latest mystery, "Fixing to Die." $15 ticket includes copy of the book, plus portion of all proceeds benefits LFAHC. www.lfaheartland.org

Parking: Lot at 10th and Olive; garage at 10th between Locust and Washington; street parking (meters free after 7pm)

Come to the store after your Mother's Day brunch to hear Elaine Viets speak about her new mystery, Board Stiff. Husband and wife PI team Helen Hawthorne and Phil Sagemont are about to find out murder is not a day at the beach!

7:00PM - 8:00PM Meet & greet Elaine Viets when she visits Central's Center for the Reader (1st floor). She will sign copies of her new book, Board Stiff: A Dead End Job Mystery. In this new novel, husband and wife P.I. team Helen Hawthorne and Phil Sagemont won't be sparing the sunscreen on their latest assignment, but they're about to find out that murder is no day at the beach. Books available for sale courtesy of Big Sleep Books. Viets, who resides in Ft. Lauderdale, was a regular columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for twenty-five years. (MDGentleReader)… (more)

Venue: Left Bank Books - Central West End | To catch a jewel smuggler on a luxury yacht, Helen needs to pose as the ship's new stewardess in the latest Dead-End Job Mystery from Elaine Viets. Viets is a mystery writer and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist who was inducted into the St. Louis Media Halls of Fame in 2011. She is also the author of another series, featuring secret shopper Josie Marcus of St. Louis. She has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Lefty Awards.

Elaine Viets has actually worked those dead-end jobs in her mystery novels, just like her character, Helen Hawthorne. Over the years, Elaine has been a dress store clerk, phone book proofreader, babysitter, telemarketer, bookseller, and weed puller at fifty cents a bucket. She is also the author of the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series and numerous short stories. Elaine has won an Anthony Award and an Agatha Award. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband, author and actor Don Crinklaw.

"Award-winning mystery novelist Elaine Viets will sign & discuss her new Helen Hawthorne "Dead End Job" mystery, Clubbed to Death (NAL; $21.95). With a resumé that includes attempted assault and alimony evasion, Helen Hawthorne is living on the lam and working wherever she can!" (christiguc)